CAM Medical Primary Care Network is seeking a motivated and experienced Clinical Pharmacist to join our remote team. In this dynamic role, you'll play a key part in delivering high-quality medicines optimisation, supporting long-term condition management, and ensuring safe, effective prescribing across our practices. Working closely with GPs, care homes, and community pharmacy teams, you'll help drive forward patient-centred care and clinical excellence within our network.

Main duties of the job

Job Summary

The Clinical Pharmacist will work remotely across the CAM Medical Primary Care Network area as part of the pharmacy team. Support provided to practices will be determined according to their existing and developing systems and will include some or all of the responsibilities noted below:

• Medication Review and Optimisation
• Care Home Medication Reviews
• Long Term Condition Clinics
• Medicines Reconciliation and processing discharge letters
• Prescribing Systems and Policies
• Liaison with community and hospital pharmacies
• Running reports and audits
• Any other duties as reasonably required.

About us

CAM Medical PCN is a collaborative group of GP practices working together to improve healthcare outcomes for our local communities. We focus on delivering integrated, patient-centred care by enhancing access to clinical services, supporting preventative health, and promoting innovation across primary care. Our multidisciplinary team includes GPs, pharmacists, nurses, and other healthcare professionals working together to provide high-quality care tailored to local needs. As a forward-thinking and supportive network, we value continuous improvement, professional development, and compassionate care.

Job responsibilities

• Medication Review and Optimisation
• Respond to pharmacy queries, including clarifying doses, products, and providing appropriate alternatives when availability issues occur.
• Discuss medication issues with patients by telephone, such as adverse effects, interactions, overdose, inadvertent ingestion, OTC remedies, and queries from practice dispensaries and care homes.
• Address specific patient and prescribing issues, such as complicated regimes, polypharmacy, compliance difficulties, multiple adverse effects, and medication reduction regimes with other clinicians as necessary.

Consultations with patients may include:

• Discuss medication issues as needed and as appropriate.
• Carry out medication reviews and continue repeat medications for new patients who have just registered with the practice, suggesting GP medication reviews where appropriate.

Additional responsibilities include:

• Care Home Medication Reviews
• Support GPs with management of care home residents.
• Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients with multi-morbidity and polypharmacy, implementing prescribing changes if an independent prescriber, and order relevant monitoring tests.
• Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration.

• Long Term Condition Clinics
• Undertake chronic disease reviews and medicine optimization according to practice guidelines, based on experience and training.
• Review secondary care requests for new medication, raise queries with relevant GPs, and respond to inappropriate prescribing requests.
• Deal with anticoagulant start/stop requests from secondary care and contact patients who have defaulted on INR monitoring.

• Medicines Information and Education
• Monitor and inform colleagues about ongoing prescribing issues, new guidelines, products, and safety alerts.
• Advise on cost-effective prescribing and budget issues.

• Prescribing Systems and Policies
• Identify patients in need of medication review and develop systems to meet this need.
• Work with GPs and practice teams to develop and implement safe and efficient prescribing policies.
• Suggest and design audits related to prescribing targets and quality outcomes.
• Monitor prescribing performance and advise on changes as appropriate.
• Oversee high-risk drug monitoring and stay updated on relevant policies and guidance.

• Liaison with Community and Hospital Pharmacies
• Support integration within community and hospital pharmacies, managing patients at risk of medicine-related problems on discharge.

• Running Reports and Audits
• Conduct clinical audits of prescribing, provide feedback, and collaborate on implementing changes.

• Any Other Duties as Reasonably Required
• Undertake any other appropriate duties as reasonably required.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• MPharm Degree (GPhC-accredited)
• Completion of Foundation Training Year (pre-registration year)
• Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
• UK based; laptops provided will only work in the UK.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975, requiring a DBS check for any previous convictions.